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  The Columnist 2019

  ★★★½ Watched by Andrew Buckle 21 Jul 2022

  This is a Katja Herbers stan account.

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  Top Gun: Maverick 2022

  ★★★★★ Watched by Andrew Buckle 03 Jul 2022

  "Your kind is headed for extinction.”

  “Maybe so sir. But not today.”

  Too right. Tom Cruise - who turns 60 today, the day we returned to the cinema for the first time in about 18 months to watch this - has rejected the notion of becoming a treasured relic of the past, instead forging on as THE pioneer of what cinema is capable of.

  Cinema is not dead if Tom Cruise has anything to do with it.

  Felt like bursting…

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  American Heist 2014

  ★ Watched by Andrew Buckle 05 May 2015 1

  "I have a bad feeling about this" is actually a line given to Hayden Christensen in this movie, and this mirrored my own thoughts mere minutes in.

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  Exodus: Gods and Kings 2014

  ★½ Watched by Andrew Buckle 01 Dec 2014

  Wow, where to begin. It's not good.

  I felt every one of those 150 minutes trickle by. So boring. And unintentionally goofy. Impressive early scale and design swallowed up by a dull script with horrendous dialogue and character.

  Aaron Paul, third billing, has about a handful of lines but his 'character' could have been played by anyone at all. The casting overall - Edgerton, Turturro etc. - a major miscue.

  So poorly timed that long stretches of nothing happening are…